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An earlier version of this story earned Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for new writers. Although it is a standalone story, it is also the first chapter of an as-yet-unpublished novel about friendship. The novel was a Semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Contest.

Published by The Midnight Oil (Vol. 2) (2019)

HOOKED AND HANGING (short story-fiction)

Although it is a standalone story, it is also a late chapter in the same as-yet-unpublished novel as above.

Published by The Write Launch (Jan. issue) (2019)

ABOUT MY DAD (2018)

GREECE THROUGH A LENS (essay)

Introduction to ZOI, a book of photography by Stella Johnson (2018)

THE WAY OUT (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Antioch Review (Vol. 76, No.3) (2018)

PARISIAN KISSES (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by HCE Review (Vol. II, Issue II) (2018)

RESTIVE AND UPRISING (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Dreamers Creative Writing (Year 1 Anthology) (2018)

An earlier version of the essay, called Rejection, was published in Poetry and Business (2016) and was the basis for the short story, Road out of Damascus

SEEING IN THE DARK (personal essay-creative nonfiction)

Published by Bellevue Literary (Fall issue) (2017)

SHISHA (short story-fiction)

Winner, Tethered by Letters’ Short Story Contest

Finalist in PNWA Literary Contest

Published in Tethered by Letters' F(r)iction #7 (2017)

FINGERPRINT (short story-fiction)

Runner-up, Prole Books' Prolitzer Prose Competition

Published in Prole21 (2016)

GREECE'S FLEDGLING TECH SCENE (article)

Published in Huffington Post Blog (2016)

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS at American College of Thessaloniki (2016)

IRON DOME (short story-fiction)

Editor's Pick, 2015 Northern Colorado Writers Contest

Published in Pooled Ink: 2015 NCW Contest Winners (2015)

Business

Marina Hatsopoulos was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing. The Company was the winner of the "New England Technology Fast 50" for 2001, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the region, and was listed in the Inc 500 ranking of the nation’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by Inc Magazine. She is currently Chair of the Board of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology and Founding Advisor of Inkbit, an MIT startup. She is a member of the National Board of Research & Innovation for the Republic of Cyprus. She is on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and she is President of Hellenic Innovation Network. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, Eurobank's EGG accelerator, OK!Thess accelerator, Mindspace entrepreneurial program, and Cyprus Seeds research commercialization program.

She was a Director and investor in Cynosure, a $400M leader in the laser aesthetics market which was sold to Hologic for $1.65 billion in 2017. She was a Director and investor in Dear Kate, which makes performance apparel, and Tea Forte, a luxury tea brand which was sold to Sara Lee. She served as Director of the GSI Group, a $300 million supplier of laser-based advanced manufacturing systems for the global semiconductor and industrial markets. She was a Director of Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners and software. As Chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), she oversaw the budgets and investments of this 120,000-member organization.

She serves on the Board of The Bridge Boston Charter School and has served on the Board of The Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. Ms. Hatsopoulos graduated with a B.A. in Pure Mathematics and a B.A. in Music from Brown University in 1987 (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Mathematics Prize, and Faculty Fellowship). She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 (Sigma Xi).

Business Press/Awards/Publications

Ms. Hatsopoulos was honored with Mass. High Tech’s 2001 All-Star Award for Hardware. She and Z Corp. have been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine , a Boston Museum of Science podcast, and MIT Technology Review. She has published articles in Design News and Time Compression Technologies, and contributed a chapter, titled “Product Differentiation from Technology,” to Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003). Her work with Greek startups was discussed on Greek EPT TV (2020).

Select Speaking Engagements

Brown University, "Managing Adversity" (Feb. 2021)
Greek Economic Summit panel, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (Dec. 2020)
MIT Women & Wine Wednesdays, "Managing a Career Pivot" (Dec. 2020)
George Washington University, "New Venture Entrepreneurial Finance" (Oct. 2020)
MIT Innovation Leadership Bootcamp & MIT/Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp-"Customer Discovery" (Oct. 2020)
Cyprus Forum-panelist, "Developing Entrepreneurs in an Academic Setting" (Oct. 2020)
Nantucket Conference-moderator, "3D Printing a Unicorn" with Max Lobovsky (Oct. 2020)
Nantucket Conference-moderator, "Building a Portfolio of Immigrant Founders," with Semyon Dukach (Oct. 2020)
Society of Petroleum Engineers, University of Suez student chapter, "Tech Entrepreneurship" (Sep. 2020)
MIT/YPO Joint Workshop-"Digital Transformation" (Aug. 2020)
AmCham American Chamber of Commerce in Cyprus online panel (June 2020)
Brown University-"Managing Crisis" (June 2020)
Athens Univ. of Economics & Business-"Avoidable Mistakes in Commercializing Research" (May 2020)
MIT Bootcamp-"Creating a Startup" (Apr. 2020)
Tedx UTHLarissa-"From the Ashes of Crisis Arises Opportunity"-Larissa, Greece (Mar. 2020)
Cyprus Seeds, "Pitching" (Nov. 2019)
George Washington University, "Entrepreneurial Finance" (Oct. 2019)
Brown Univ. Masters of Science in Technology Leadership-Convocation Address, "On Leadership"-Prov., RI (Oct. 2020)
U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Osaka Institute of Tech-“U.S. Tech Startup Hubs & Elements of Success”-Osaka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Kyushu Institute of Technology-Iizuka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
U.S. Dept. of State Speaker Program, Fukuoka GrowthNext Conference Keynote-Fukuoka, Japan (Sept. 2019)
Cyprus Seeds-“Avoidable Mistakes in Commercializing Research”-Nicosia, Cyprus (June 2019)
MIT International Workshop on Innovation-“Breaking Rules & Entrepreneurship”-Cambridge, MA (June 2019)
Brown University-“On Entrepreneurship”-Providence, RI (Oct. 2018)
Hellenic American Bankers Association-“Trends in Entrepreneurship”-New York, NY (October 2018)
Athens University of Economics & Business-Athens, Greece (May 2018)
Harvard University-"New, Useful & Nonobvious"-Cambridge, MA (May 2018)
MIT-“Managing Adversity as CEO”-Cambridge, MA (2008-2018)
MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conf. (MARC) Keynote-"Startup Decisions"-Bretton Woods, NH (Jan. 2018)
Aristeon Award Acceptance Keynote-Boston, MA (Nov. 2017)
THI Venture Fair Keynote-“Investing in Greece”-Athens, Greece (June 2016)
University of Cyprus-“Elements of a Successful Startup”-Nicosia, Cyprus (Oct. 2016)
Reload Greece-“Activating the Diaspora”-London, England (Sep. 2016)
American College of Thessaloniki-Commencement Address-Thessaloniki, Greece (July 2016)
MIT Enterprise Forum Greece- "Starting Smart: An entrepreneur, investor and mentor perspective" (Nov. 2015)
MIT Enterprise Forum Mexico -Guadalajara, Mexico (March 2015)

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